Lefty is a nickname for a person who is left-handed. Lefty may refer to: Lefty Bates (1920–2007), American Chicago blues guitarist Lefty Bertrand (1909–2002), Major League Baseball pitcher for one game Steve Carlton (born 1944), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cliff Chambers (1922–2012), American Major League Baseball pitcher Lefty Clarke (1896–1975), Major League Baseball pitcher for one game Lefty Driesell (born 1931), American college basketball coach Lefty Frizzell (1928–1975), American country music singer and songwriter Lefty Gomez (1908–1989), Mexican-American Major League Baseball pitcher Lefty Grove (1900–1975), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Herring (1880–1965), American Major League Baseball player Lefty Kreh (1925-2018), fly fisherman and photographer Frank Killen (1870–1939), American baseball pitcher Lefty Leifield (1883–1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher Lefty Marr (1862–1912), American Major League Baseball player Lefty O'Doul (1897–1969), American Major League Baseball player and minor league manager Phil Mickelson (born 1970), American professional golfer Lefty Phillips (1919–1972), American Major League Baseball coach, manager, scout and executive Frank Rosenthal (1929–2008), American sports handicapper, Las Vegas casino executive, bookmaker and organized crime associate Lefty Ruggiero (1926–1994), American mobster Lefty Stewart (1900–1974), American Major League Baseball pitcher Lew Tendler (1898–1970), American Hall-of-Fame boxer Lefty Tyler (1889–1953), American Major League Baseball pitcher Lefty Weinert (1900–1973), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Wilkie (1914–1992), Canadian Major League Baseball pitcher Lefty Williams (1893–1959), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher involved in the Black Sox scandal An on-air name for American disc jockey Captain Mikey, born Marion Elbridge Herrington (1935–1997) Lefty, main character in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. See also Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a brave Roman, possibly mythical, youth who earned the cognomen Scaevola, meaning left-handed Lists of people by nickname